Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

28.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Make friends before you need them

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo